I've got my Edel.RPM off my BBC now and needed to clean it up some.It's had a clear coat on it b4 that's yellowed.I tried blasting it tonite with some old Black Beauty media and had a he!! of a time gettin it off.Ended up useing some aircraft stripper to get it all off.Will now Bead blast it to final clean it up...Anyone know of a GOOD clear coat that wont yellow over time that I can use on it?? :confused:

Thanks,
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Rick

Rick,
My experience has been that almost any clear will yellow after a while. I have been using Seymour Dull Aluminum engine paint instead. We use it when we rebuild aluminum cylinder heads and it really looks nice. It has the advantage of your being able to touch it up very easily with the spray can. See if your machine shop has some, most use the Seymour paints.
Hope this helps,

Thanks Bill,I'll try the aluminum paint idea.

Any other thoughts from anyone? :confused:

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Rick

I know Duplicolor makes a high temp Clear coat in their ceramic enigine paint line up. I think I might try it and see what happens. Biggest problem is around the Heat crossover, where it can get pretty hot, that's where most intakes yellow first. I have never had any problems with their Chevy Orange paint.

Later
Steve

Duplicolor clear yellows within 1 year. graemlins/angry.gif

I've used high quality urethane top coat on intakes w/o yellowing. I don't think it would stand up an exhaust crossover, but it stands up to heat and gasoline spills very well.

I don't bother with any clearcoat..just media blast it,and a wipe down with some laquer thinner every once in awhile to keep it looking good graemlins/thumbsup.gif
The dull aluminum paint doesn't work too bad either.I've done both,and am happy with either way.

I agree 100% with 4speed. The best thing to do with an aluminum intake is nothing. I clean mine with laquer thinner on a small rag and it looks like the day it was sand blasted...

We used VHT 1200 degree clear after we beadblasted our Edelbrock RPM Air-Gap Vortec Intake and Victor Junior Long Water Pump.

Both still look great.

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If you want a great looking intake coating then you need to send it to, http://processcoatings.com/index.html

The color is Cermakrome. Have them sand/bead blast your intake, cermakrome it and then also CLEAR COAT it. The clear coat helps seal it and makes it so you can wipe it clean. The clear coat does NOT yellow. My friends Chevelle intake was done 2 years before he bought it and he's had it for three and a half years and it still looked like new!

I had my air-gap intake powder coated with chrome color then clear and it looks great, but I forgot to tell them to mask off the ports----now it's coated inside and out! I haven't ran it yet, anybody think I'll have a problem? It sure seams to stick good.

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Doesn't anyone have any concerns regarding the heat that these coatings will "trap" into the intake? I thought we all wanted our intakes to dissipate heat rather than retain it. Seems like a cooler intake would be better to me.
This is NOT the reason mine is uncoated (except for the overspill and occasional fuel drip!), mine isn't coated because I'm simply too doggone lazy to do it or maintain it.
Dan
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